January 2009 Entries

Yes I did have a query that ran for 1 Day 13 Hours! It was doing a rollup of data for 13 years. That would be 3 million records per month, for 156 months or 468 million records! Who says that SQL Server doesn’t scale. :)

Microsoft has started a new program called Ramp UP (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx). “Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills.”At this time they have 6 tracks. . .
SharePoint for Developers (Part 1)
Visual Studio 2008
Aspiring Developer (migrating to VS 2005)
Java Developer (migrating to VS 2005)
VB 6.0 Developer (migrating to VS 2005)
VS 2002/2003 Developer (migrating...